Probably. The cost would be immense. Just to launch a satellite that weighs about 5000 pounds into a Geostationary orbit is roughly half a billion dollars, US. That doesn't figure the cost of the actual satellite. Figuring you'd need to launch people and supplies at the minimum required for a life-sustaining gene pool (they'd have to reproduce en route), it's a lot of tonnage. Still, I think that we'll eventually go. It may be millennia before it happens, though.

Bring a sci-fi fan I have to suspend my disbelief on a very high hook and just accept future technologies that we have no idea how to achieve at the moment. There again we had no idea how to achieve any of the techs we have now at some point in our racial history.

We have stretched physics beyond what even our fathers thought possible 100 years ago. We still have a long way to go with quantum mechanics and have not really started to even understand "dark energy".

At the moment though, yeah, it would take all the resources of the whole world for many decades to construct a "generation" colony ship in orbit, equip and man it. Just lifting enough materials, resources and bodies out of the gravity well . . .

Would it be less effort to use luna or asteroid sourced materials? Still got to get the building kit and staff up there.

Who knows what gifts CERN and other large scale experiments - or thousands of small teams all over the world - will bring. Providing the politicians, capitalists and industrialists allow civilisation enough time to do the job.

I know they are playing with the idea of a settlement on mars but, although they are pushing news and make it sound like it will be soon, I think it will take a while and it might not happen during our lifetimes.

I think that in the future it may be possible to venture our into space. Of course all depends on what kind of techonological revolutions we are going to have as the human race but there are some pretty cool ideas out there and I think in one or two hundred years there may be a way to have humans venturing towards other planets etc. Some "small" journeys you know, nothing fancy but I think it can happen.
That unless something extreme happens of course.

This is because humans have always had a fascination with the stars and space and they have fantasized for millenia what is going on up there. Nowadays we can look into the stars, we can find other planets, and we have people out in space. And our people out there are living there just ok, they are just not travelling yet.

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